Create new patient with canceling

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kral@fortech.cz
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Create new patient with canceling

Post by kral@fortech.cz » Mon Dec 31, 2018 7:53 am

Hi,
Is this correct? I click "Select patient", type a last name and push button "Add Pt". When I close the window for adding a patient by cancel button then cancelled patient's record still exists in database table patient. But it is not shown in patient list in OD.

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dgraffeo
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Re: Create new patient with canceling

Post by dgraffeo » Mon Dec 31, 2018 10:11 am

Yes, this is correct. No patients are ever truly deleted (even if they were just created). They are assigned patient status of Deleted, which is what happens in this case. The reason is that if a patient is ever accidentally deleted somehow, it is still recoverable. Since you can make a new patient with the same exact information as the deleted patient, there is no issue with the patient remaining in the database as deleted.
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